Banks said he killed his children because he felt they would be tormented by the cruelty of racial views against mixed-race children. Since his conviction Banks has tried to kill himself four times and has gone on hunger strikes that required him to be force-fed.(25 September 1982)

There are 2573 births, 2066 deaths, 506 murders, 314 disasters and 1311 other events about 3667 people in 4226 places until today.

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9 November 1971 (x) kills his 85-year-old mother Alma, his 45-year-old wife Helen and his children 16-year-old Patricia, 15-year-old John and 13-year-old Frederick with a 9mm Steyr 1912 semi-automatic handgun and a Colt .22 caliber revolver at the age of 46 in Westfield, United States.